This paper includes modeling and simulation of 180 MW units of pumped storage power plant with Variable speed machines. In this method, voltage source inverters are used instead of traditional cyclo-converters. This paper aims to control the voltage source inverters and maintain DC voltage at a constant value. AC/ DC/ AC converter is used in system configuration structure in order to control an...

of Nonholonomic Wheeled Mobile Robot Hyun-Sik Shim Jong-Hwan Kim Kwangill Koh Dept. of Elec. Eng. Dept. of Elec. Eng. KAIST KAIST LG Industrial Systems Co., Ltd. Taejoen-shi, 305-701, Korea Taejoen-shi, 305-701, Korea Kyongki-do, 430-080, Korea [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Abstract A variable structure controller(VSC) for a nonholonomic wheeled mobile...

Variable structure control system design methods are applied to the problem of aircraft spin recovery. A variable structure control law typically has two phases of operation. The reaching mode phase uses a nonlinear relay control strategy to drive the system trajectory to a pre-defined switching surface within the motion state space. The sliding mode phase involves motion along the surface as t...

This work proposes a new method of dynamical control systems implementation using the Cerebellar Model Articulation Controller (CMAC) neural network as part of a variable structure system. CMAC is a neural network easily implemented in hardware, quite efficient in the reproduction of multivariable functions and extremely fast in its training process. These features yield CMAC applications in ro...

In the general framework of hydraulic servo systems, this paper addresses the problem of position control in the presence of important friction nonlinearities. The accent falls on the variable structure methodology, as we try to use its intrinsic robustness properties. Several friction observers, including the one based on a variable structure approach, were incorporated and tested in an accele...

A variable-structure control system designed to enable a fuselage-heavy airplane to recover from spin has been demonstrated in a hand-launched, instrumented model glider airplane (see figure). It has long been known that the most effective spin recovery technique for fuselage-heavy aircraft involves the use of ailerons to roll the airplane into the spin. This technique might be considered count...

The use of a robust position controller for a robotic manipulator moving in free space is presented. The aim is to implement in practice a controller that is robust to uncertainties in the model of the system, as well as being inexpensive from a computational point of view. Variable structure theory provides the technique for the design of such controller. The design steps are presented, first ...

In this paper, potential instability and loss of performance due to the use of attractive and non-invariant switching sector in a number of discrete variable structure controllers (DVSC) for linear systems with parametric uncertainties are discussed. Analytical explanation as well as counter examples are given to support the arguments. A state feedback DVSC based on the concept of switching sec...

This paper deals with the application of a variable structure observer developed for a class of nonlinear systems to solve the trajectory tracking problem for rigid robot manipulators. The analyzed approach to observer design proposes a simple design methodology for systems having completely observable linear parts and bounded nonlinearities and/or uncertainties. This observer is basically the ...

This paper proposes a method for the organization of real sliding movements, which are caused by finite switching frequency of control systems. In one of two proposed structures for the organization of sliding modes, the control is formed according to the principle of feedback connections; in the other proposed structure, the control is formed according to the principle of discrete control wher...